grief-stricken - Story 57618 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the room was thick with the scent of perfume and expensive cologne, a sensory assault that heightened his disorientation. He looked at his father, beaming, surrounded by well-wishers. But the joy felt artificial, a performance. He missed his mother terribly. It felt like yesterday he last saw her.

He had expected to feel happy, to celebrate his father's achievements. Instead, he felt a crushing sense of loss. He fumbled with the note cards in his hand, the words blurring before his eyes. All he could see was the emptiness she had left behind, a vast, silent space that no amount of celebration could fill. He wished he could turn back time.

Emotion: grief-stricken

Cluster: Sadness / Despair

PC1 (Valence): -2.10 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -1.14

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion grief-stricken. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 grief-stricken stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the grief-stricken emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the grief-stricken vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`😞`	0.396
`泪`	0.338
`😢`	0.332
`haunting`	0.331
`😔`	0.325

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.434
`😎`	-0.330
`B`	-0.303
`🤓`	-0.285
`😎`	-0.276